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Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read. -- Chetan Bhagat
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do. -- Oscar Hijuelos
I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet access. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city. -- Rabindranath Maharaj
E-books, which made their debut in the 1990s, cut costs even more for both consumer and producer, though as the Internet expanded, those roles became confused. -- Joshua Cohen
The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively. -- Evgeny Morozov
My observations are not bread crumbs. They do not dissolve. They are on record, on film printed in books, and found on the Internet. I am happy to share them. For this I was born. -- Bill Cosby
When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that. -- Karl Pilkington
For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. -- Bill Gates
I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case of authors, read one of their books. I watch interviews via YouTube and collect pictures via the Internet. -- Siegfried Woldhek
I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if I'd grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children. -- Rick Yancey
As the 2012 elections approach the finish line, the chatter among columnists and political reporters is about upcoming books that take readers inside the campaigns, cutting-edge efforts to micro-target voters on Internet social applications, the enormous money flowing through super-PACs, and extreme political polarization. -- Juan Williams
Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you. -- Kathleen Hanna
All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world. -- Zig Ziglar
To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business. -- Alison Owen
I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books. -- Kevin Smith
There is a lot of talk in publishing these days that we need to become more like the Internet: We need to make books for short attention spans with bells and whistles - books, in short, that are as much like 'Angry Birds' as possible. But I think that's a terrible idea. -- John Green
Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books. -- Gary Wolf
When the Internet came along, at first it was just a medium for moving text around - books first, then pictures, finally video. Each time the bandwidth expanded, so did the capabilities of the medium, and each time it happened, the Internet cannibalized preexisting formats. And each time, those formats had to adapt. Or die. -- David Gerrold
We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure. -- Clifford Stoll
Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness. -- Jane Fonda
The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. -- John Allen Paulos
We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books. -- Don DeLillo
The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV. -- Marissa Mayer
Not surprisingly, the chief way self-published authors get the word out about their books is through the Internet. -- Ruth Glick
I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about. -- Heidi Julavits
Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers? -- S.A. Tawks
Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read. -- Bernie Sanders
Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website. -- George Carlin
Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do. -- Jenny Lawson
There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda. -- Joshua Cohen

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